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Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, ultil the moment comes when we no longer reconize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#courage

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct. ↗

— Sophie Scholl

#courage

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ↗

— Edward Weeks

#fear #maturity #courage

I shall never again admire a merely brave man. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#courage

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#books #age

Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#favourite #courage

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17) ↗

— Rollo May

#courage #moral-courage #courage

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached? ↗

— David F. Wells

#church #post-modernism #courage

Don't think you can watch all the romantic movies, soap operas, TV shows and read all the romantic books out there and not be affected. Ninety-nine percent of the romantic stuff out there is garbage... and what you put in always comes out... UGLIER! ↗

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

#learn #love #romantic #love

Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air. ↗

— Mark Nepo

#courage